Madden Reviews
A few Shark updates of note today.
Dan’s Wii review is up.
As is my 360 review.
Dan’s latest TWID notes was posted over the weekend, actually, and I also forgot to plug the latest Cracked LCD, which talks about an old game called Space Crusade.
A few other items of note: BioShock for the PC officially owns me. Even on my middling PC it runs fine so far (2.4 Ghz, gig of ram and a GeForce 6800 Ultra). It’s a giddy sort of fun that I don’t get from games as much as I used to. BioShock is the real deal. Hopefully it won’t be a repeat of the sad tale of System Shock 2 which is still unquestionably a top 5 game of all time but didn’t sell like one. This one deserves to sell enough units to make up for that consumer gaffe.
Played my first game of Tide of Iron and the first game with real people in the Egyptian auction game: Ra (I had played a solo game to learn the rules.) Both are great fun but in wildly different ways. A weekend of BioShock and some boardgames involving Tiger tanks and an Egyptian god.
Not bad.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:13 am
You know Bill, I think Madden and NHL are the 2 things that aggravate me the most about EA. I just stopped buying NHL on PC a few years ago after the series dumped realism. And Madden just angers a “realism player” to no end.
It kind of feels like there’s just no pride or drive in the development team (or more accurately, “the producer’s” of the game).
You’re so right about atmosphere too. If you own the whole NFL license and you don’t have any sense of realism, what’s the next thing you HAVE to have? Atmohphere - “You’re in the game!”. Except, for so many years now in the Madden game series, there’s no suspension of disbelief because the atmosphere is about as fun as my late Bio-Statistics classes.
They should go back to TV Sports Football and FrontPage Sports Football. Marry those two together with their graphic engine, and then we have the a game we can drool over.